Problem: How can I make notes with bullet points in this paragraph? However, these differences between children in divorced and intact families are not large. A meta-analysis of studies comparing children in divorced and intact families showed that for psychological adjustment (depression and anxiety), the effect size was d = .31 and for conduct problems (aggression and misbehavior), it was .33 (Amato, 2001). This means that, on average, children with divorced parents scored about one-third of a standard deviation lower than children with continuously married parents on assessments of psychological well-being and good behavior. Other recent studies (Amato & Anthony, 2014) confirm that children are negatively affected by divorce: reading and mathematics scores, positive approach to learning, interpersonal skills, and self-control decreased while internalizing problems and externalizing problems increased. Researchers have also found that compared with children from intact families, children from divorced families are about twice as likely to skip school or be suspended, to get into trouble with the police, to become pregnant as teenagers, to be unemployed in their late teens and early twenties, to experience clinical levels of distress and depression, use alcohol, smoke, and use drugs more (Anderson, 2014; Lacey et al., 2016; Zeratsion et al., 2014). Need Assignment Help?